Tom is crazy fun

And the fact that he knows this weatherman from Los Angeles leads us to believe that may he actually DOES just watch TV when he is in LA? Never goes out at night? HAHAHAH. Kidding. Mark Thompson is amazing, so funny that Tom knows of him.

Humanoid City Bling

From Tom’s Blog. “Here is a first insight in our HUMANOID tourstyle: check out the two exclusive shots of the mics which Bill will be using.” Yeeha! This concert is going to be an extravaganza. More, Tom, we want MORE! Gustav’s blinged drums please!

Confirmed by Tom Kaulitz

Single News Flash! – Well, who has already noticed that on the landing page is already running another song? Our new global single will be “World Behind My Wall” / “Lass uns Laufen”! YES!

Intro.de Interview and cool art

Tom has also featured this on his blog. This is the cover of Intro.de with an interview with the Kaulitz twins inside. It’s really cool artwork and cries of “I want this as a poster on my wall” are being heard around the world.

Tom’s blog

If you need some spooky stuff for Halloween you should get the latest issue of German mag INTRO [or join Gustav for a ride in his car!]. The theme is perfect for this time of year – it’s all about ghosts, monsters and scary stories. The cover turned out really great! It was done by someone who specializes in creating old school comics as well as old & cool looking movie posters. For Christmas I’ll give this cover as a giant poster to Bill as my present….so he can hang it up beside his bed, next to all the other pics of me that are covering the walls in his room ;-]

You can download a PDF file of this by right clicking this link!

The interview – Translation by Pat
Twins are a challenge. Because they are so equal, there is the chance of mixing them up. For years, the double identity of Tokio Hotel inspires and polarizes. Kerstin and Sandra Grether, The Intro’s own twinpower, met the two in Hamburg to discuss the phenomenon, the music and everything else.

“Lots of people have an image of us and react automatically, most of all in daily encounters.” (Bill Kaulitz)

What would aliens say, sent from a nosy planet to Earth, to describe the phenomenon Tokio Hotel? It would be quite possible that they would find lots of beautiful things on the first two albums of the most loved and hated band in Germany. Since Nena’s epic early work, there has not been a German-speaking band that succeeded to produce such everyday, rebellious fantasy rock for a young and mostly female target group. Moreover, an original mix of styles, which is more aesthetically demanding then functional.

What it feels like for a girl, boy.

Above all, the aliens would be astounded that a leather jacket, eyeliner, and long-haired dreadlock-wearing pop singer can move heaven and earth, and polarize, just because it pleases him to also show his feminine side. The aliens would possibly remember the start of that which we call pop culture. The decade after the Second World War, when the Americans invented the word “teenager” as a marketing term and the press was making fun of the mass hysteria Frank Sinatra created because he was not wearing a uniform and was not traditionally masculine.

The “Crush with eyeliner” already has credibility with the male audience and it does not even cause a stir anymore in the artificial Anglo-American galaxies of pop. Even so, Tokio Hotel takes a courageous ride through the monsun of German-authenticity hell.

The blood will freeze in the body and mechanical soul of our aliens. Imagine. Two iridescent, cool mythical beings from an East German small town schoolyard, 2005, in the aggro wonderland where bullying is tolerated (translator note: can’t really translate this sentence, god german can be tough sometimes – Pat), while all the adults stand around, talking about being authentic and rational, to overplay their own madness. And what can a 15 year old girl, (who has grown up with internet pornography and female-unfriendly rap songs in the charts, in a time, in which “whore” is just another word for girl/female/woman), wish for besides these romantic, guitar riffing, sexy scream of self, in which Tokio Hotel wrote their experiences about the everyday varieties on the provincial schoolgrounds into their songs?

Yes, Individuality ranks highly in the Tokio Hotel Universe. It is that, which made the differently-styled twins reinvent the teeny band format. Is that what interests the (mostly female) fans the most?

How do you do that, going your own way?

Man could have known by looking at the polarising power the 4 emo boys have, the fans of Tokio Hotel are not just screaming idiots. When you click through the fan forums, you very rapidly see that they can reflect on the band with humor and critic. Which does not stop the scornful, homophobic and shocking voices in public, from telling the girls that they have fallen into a gigantic scam. The rebelling against these idiotic, sexually envious, male anti-pop reflex is a known part in the fan code. And it sharpens all the senses for a independent and creative being. (and a sixth sense for anticipating fear as well)

But the way Rock’ n Roll dies a thousand deaths, it also starts a thousand beginnings. It is no coincidence that Tokio Hotel quote Frank Sinatra’s my way evergreen in the happy science fiction hymn : “The Dark side of the Sun”, while they are tracing their own glorious road : “Hello, the end is near, hello, we’re still standing here. The future’s just begun, on the dark side of the sun”.

Humanoid

Humanoid, at the most humanlike, is the name of the 3rd album, on which the band takes a risk and changes their known TH sound in a grown up and playful way. It includes many perfect pop songs in goth rock style.

Pretty and sick, complex and to sing along to, without meaning and full of meaning, and that all at the same time. Of course there is an influence of renowned international songwriters like Guy Chambers (Robbie Williams), Desmond Child and the Matrix, with whom Tokio Hotel and their song writer team collaborated on a few songs. The guitardriven hit “Automatisch”, with electro beats and highflying singing against the machine values and celebrating being out of love as in a trance. And the already mentioned glam rock manifest: “Dark Side of the sun”, which refers to the novel by Terry Pratchett, tops even the classics of glam rock, with the huge crazy panic scenario, that was designed into it, this neat and crazy Tokio Riot, is already going on. “On the TV, in Your place, on the radio, oh. it’s a riot, it’s a riot, they say no, oh.” The Radio Hysteria song goes over all capabilities of the so called perfect pop song, to take the extraordinary out of the normalities. And it is a worthy answer in the stylish conservative rock era, that searches and curses their superstars, and can not do anything else but either love or hate them for their individuality.

It is a combination of spontaneity and strategy, and the high degree of selfmade stylising, that turn Bill and Tom Kaulitz into worldwide superstars in the boulevardised pop stables. The ideal of this decade is to channel extreme emotions in a creative way, to have a voice that counts. Bill Kaulitz’s voice and his notoriously touching looks are not anything like the idle coldness and the warpaint worn by David Bowie or Him singer Ville Vallo. He shocks and inspires with humor and cordiality. And makes fans all over the world crave for Bill and Tom’s media presence on lots of documents on the internet. Especially twins have been used historically as a strong projection of the desires of society. The world around them sees something special in them, threats them as outsiders because of that and at the same time fights the symptomes of this special state.

Twin Towers

Man, we are already really excited for the interview, we do not meet identical extravagant twins every day, who come from a town at the end of the world, coffee addicted and sunshy. And who exist to keep a distance.

Then all of a sudden Tom and Bill show up, really looking like very big dark angels (1.90m) dressed in lots of black, with striking white contrasts. Which mimics with their changing between light and dark songs. The boys come across as very neat, make jokes and are a bit nervous on this early interview day. They radiate with energy, so that a lifely conversation develops really fast. Drummer Gustav and bass player Georg are not there, too bad, it is a twin meeting after all.

What does Humanoid mean to you?

Bill: The song has a lot of different melodies and influences. And that is exactly what Humanoid means to us, a feeling of being torn up, not knowing where you belong. We have freed ourselves of the typical song structures and build the song like a story, with highs and lows.

How did you come up with the new sound anyways?

Tom: We wanted to try a few things. We had the best technichal possibilities for it. Our goal was to have cool songs and get something completely new soundwise.
Bill: It was a lot of detail work. We didn’t sleep the last few days and just kept changing it. Tom and I have also co-produced the album.

How should we imagine your songwriting process?

Tom: In the past 90 percent of our songs were created with the acoustic guitar, and then in the studio we figured out how to make them work. This time, we were directly composing and recording in the studio.
Bill: Our producers for instance played something to us and said, so and so in that direction. Then Tom had played guitar to it, and I sung to it, the songs were created in different ways.

The song Automatic sounds like you wanted to return the projections, that a lot of people have about stars or your band. That you were created, and function like a machine and so on.

Bill: Super that somebody recognizes that. That is what we meant with the song. A lot of people have an image of us and react completely automatic. Especially in meetings, that happen automatically during the day. You cannot get people to be genuine enough when you meet them.

Tokio Hotel must meet the requirements of an internationally succesful act. Your view as a popband is obvious.

Bill: Clothes, lyrics, music. It all goes together for me. It is a feeling you want to transport. I love taking pictures and I am very much into the entire fashion thing. This way you can make a lot of small dreams come true.

[to Bill] We had the theory that you went in Tom’s hairstyle direction, because he did not want to take yours.

Tom: [laughs] Let’s say, I have been a rolemodel for Bill my entire life.
Bill: When I decided to get the dreadlocks, I did not even think about his, cause I thought his were horrible. They were kind of nature things. And I wanted something completely different.

Did you guys have a phase in your lives in which you did not stand out at all?

Bill: When you were out on your own, it was not such a big theme. But when you show up together, people talk about you. Even though we look so different.
Tom: That was already like that in the past.
Bill: There is nothing more beautiful then being an identical twin. I cannot even imagine it being any different. Tom and I, we are so much one, we are soulmates. I can not be without him for even one day.

Next to all the enthusiasm, that comes with that, there must be people who are afraid of this strong unity.

Tom: That has happened to us a lot, naturally. In the seventh grade we were punished exactly because of this. The teachers said, our opinion was to strong for them.
Bill: [laughs] When Tom and I share an opinion, you cannot get passed that. That is pretty hard/rough. Also for the people on our team.

Your twinly togetherness is probably not standard in society?

Bill: Yeah, it is something different.
Tom: All people always thought, it is crazy that these types, who dress so differently, talk to each other at all.
Bill: Like the motto: why is someone, who obviously listens to hiphop, hanging out with a dude, who paints his eyes.

You are living in the vision of a really tolerant society. Because it is nice that a hiphop type guy and such a feminine type understand each other so well.

Bill: Yeah, to be understood, ja, right!
Tom: I think, people can supplement each other, when they would do more together. People compliment each other really well , thank god, while everyone has a different opinion.

Really shocking , that your teachers dissed you. They should have saved you from being bullied.

Bill: Yeah, exactly, instead the teacher, when we got punished, told the students, they should put Tom in a new class.
Tom: We found that out recently. My best friend was in that class, and he told me.
Bill: We never allowed it though.
Tom: We have always polarised. That was a good preparation for now. We love our fans for this courage. And it is great that it inspires girls to get creative themselves.
Bill: Everywhere we go, they give us their lyrics and demo’s and drawings. That is really cool.

The Aliens transmit to their planet: Once Tokio Hotel confused the schoolgrounds. Humanoid could convince the adult doubters, who only saw blank posterboys in a group/band. Tokio Hotel are too good to just be a “Guilty pleasure”. One of the last truths that can still be twisted about in this era.

See it online as well.

Tom and shoes

Well, Tom Kaulitz has blogged again. Bill may get the most press for his fashion choices, but we think big brother Tom is just as obsessed as his brother. Remember those neon rainbow Nikes he was loving in one of his early blog entries?

Well, now he is loving these:

Sneakers Deluxe! Wicked brand that I just discovered. Love the new collection’s style!
…what do you think about these sneakers?

What do you think? I would love to see Tom in these with that blue!

Nod from Tom Kaulitz

As you all know, Tom Kaulitz has continued to post his eccentric and interesting blogs at the main Tokio Hotel site! The other day, he posted about a school choir:

Run This Town
Pretty cool what this school choir got together…okay, nobody can beat Jay-Z’s style and Rihanna hits the notes a little more clean but I definitely love the attitude these kids are showing – awesome! The only thing I’m wondering is who put the speed ino the music teacher’s green tea… ;)

And cool of coolness? The school knows about it!
Congrats to the PS22 Chorus of 2010 who received a nod from guitarist Tom Kaulitz of the German band Tokio Hotel!

In case you missed the original video, here it is!

The kid on Tom’s Blog

So, as you may know, Tom posted the following video on his blog because he liked it. Imagine that kid’s surprise as his video nears 500,000 views? Well, now he has thanked Tom and I think we can safely say there’s a new fanman in town.

The original from nicholifavs

and the thank you to Tom.

New single title confirmed

Tom Kaulitz himself has blogged about the new Tokio Hotel single. And here it is! AUTOMATIC – AUTOMATISCH! I have to admit that Bill and I had some different opinions about what tracks to put on the album ;) but we couldn’t have agreed more on this song! The first single of our upcoming album HUMANOID will be AUTOMATIC (title of the German version: AUTOMATISCH).

Tom Blog – July 30

Changing the way we are share Tom’s blog. Stay tuned for seeing a better link to find all the updates. But for now, Enjoy this one from today! (so weird, I was just reading about Patrick Wolf and wondering when Tokio Hotel might somehow be linked, as he is very fashionable and has a new edge. Thanks, Tom!)

Link to the blog on the Tokio Hotel Site

Wolf rules with black light
Judge the song yourself but the video with its black light effects is super freaky. Pretty vanguard (is that what you call it? ;-) this Wolf person.

Tom’s Blog – July

Okay. So, for posterity, this will be the amazing Tom’s Blog Post of Doom for July. Copying his content here because we can save it forever this way. No copyright infringement intended. Enjoy. Will be kept up to date as we can, but of course, we know you will be reading it at the official site!

July 16, 2009
Certain things make me want to have kids
I never really thought about having kids and right now it wouldn’t really fit in with the rest of my lifestyle anyway ;) I know I wouldn’t want a dad who’s 19 years old, barely spends a night at home and works with some weird guys. But seeing stuff like that gets me thinking…!

By the way, I told Gustav yesterday that you guys left him so many greetings in the comments. He was super happy about that and sends you guys „best wishes“ back. Everything will be OK – only the stiches seem to itch a little – so please don’t worry!

Movies I’ll Watch this Summer
And here is #4!
Terminator Salvation!

July 15, 2009
Movie’s I’ll Watch this Summer…
and here is #3

Halleluja!
Scary or celestial – not too sure about it. However, no doubt that there are A LOT of crosses. This mountain of crosses, which is named Kryžiu kalnas, is somewhere in Lithuania close to the village Šiauliai. It’s a place of pilgrimage and each visitor brings a cross to leave there. From the looks of it, there have already been quite some people. To me this seems like a wicked location for a video shoot….what do you think?

July 14, 2009
Newflash!
Georg will go nuts! I have to call him right now and deliver the news. Hagen will feel like it’s Christmas, Easter and his birthday all on the same day! His idol returns – David Hasselhoff aka Mitch Buchanon will be on Baywatch again….and this time he hits the big screen! Wow! All right, I have to dial 017656….

Guess what…
Guess what I’ll do today :)
–Persuade Bill to proof read my blog entries for spelling errors.
–Meet up with our management to plan our first event at the end of August in Germany, where we’ll also perform songs for the first time after this long break.
–Set up an easy going bicycle tour in nature with Wolfgang & Hagen (I’ll drive my car beside them).

July 13, 2009
Don´t Move!
This vid is priceless :) and how awesome is the idea behind it?! I don’t even want to know how many nights these crazy programmers must have spent in front of their computers. I’m also wondering if there is one single real human in it. It’s a little sad but beautiful at the same time. The clip is by Stink Digital and director Adam Berg for a 21/9 TV.

Movies I’ll watch this summer!
…and here is #2!

July 12, 2009
They got BALLS (and chocolate)!
Balls and chocolate! :) oh, I almost forgot the skater. Did I already mention that Bill once wanted to become a professional kickboarder? I think so, but I can’t tell this story often enough. Had music not crossed his path then he would have shot this clip with his kickboard. Come on, you need to imagine this: instead of Bob Burnquist there would be my little brother Bill.

Petit Fan with a new look

July 11, 2009
Summer Movie #1

July 11, 2009
What movies am I going to watch this summer?
Why do I go to the movies during the summer? Well, German summers are quite often not what you’d like them to be. During the few next days I will post 10 movies that I’ll definitely watch this summer. How and where do I go to the movies?! Can’t tell you that, but we might sit side by side some day! ;)
Aside from that I’m a huge fan of old drive-in-cinemas. Unfortunately there are way too few left but the great thing about them is that you can do whatever you want in your car….as long as your windows are tinted ;-)

July 10, 2009
Comments are on now! Have fun :)

July 10, 2009
WRRRoooOROOOOROOOOOOM!
All right, I admit it – I’m crazy about cars and nobody will be able to stop me from posting stuff about cars ;) ! This one only exists in the digital world so far and will probably never show up in my garage. Who said that cars can’t be beauty queens?

July 9, 2009
Some of you already received the news: we’ve been searching for new partners to manage our concerts and now our LIVE team is complete. „William Morris Endeavor Entertainment“ will book our concerts in the future and the guys from „The Production Office“ will turn our stage ideas into reality and make sure that everything at the venue (hopefully it’ll be in your city as well!) runs smoothly. We have so many ideas for the upcoming tour and are already talking to people from different venues! :)

July 9, 2009
It’s Gustav Again
Haha, it’s Gustav again (sorry, Klaus:). Not sure what it is… but somehow this reminds me of Gustav’s legendary dance at our VMA fanparty. Have to go now and start practicing the dance moves.

July 8, 2009
Adventures Of Power
You’ve got to see THIS trailer. AIR DRUMMING?!? What kind of crazy nonesense is that?! ;) Come to think of it, when I watch Gustav behind his drums he would definitely have a good chance to be in this genre. No one has more power…

July 7, 2009
Comments, anyone?
Guys, I feel we are missing a comment function here in the blog. What do you think?
YES, Tom!!! I totally want to be able to say “Hello” to you.
Don’t know – I’m not really sure.
No! Please keep the comments out – it’s great without them!

July 7, 2009
New Tokio Hotel TV Camera has arrived
We didn’t want our cameraman to drag around his super heavy cam from the Stone-Age anymore and so we just had to be nice to him for once and got him a newer, smaller version. Let’s see how the results turn out and most importantly what happens next on TH TV…;)

July 6, 2009
I hated my school
Just thinking about my old school building gives me the creeps. Absolutely horrible. Just so you know, Bill really enjoyed going to school and he was so thrilled every year when the summer holidays finally ended! ;)
Have a look at this school in Berlin and imagine you attend classes there. Had this been our building and if the teachers were a little more cool then I would have repeated grade 10 forever ;) [ok, not true at all]

July 6, 2009
Completed!
And now we have everyone up again. Don’t ask me what kind of mission Gustav and Georg are on, I have no clue :D

July 6, 2009
Samy Deluxe
This video of my favourite German rapper Samy Deluxe turned out really well. I think they should have included a Tokio Hotel concert in this miniature world, or even better: a Tom Kaulitz statue. I’ll need to talk to Samy about that :)

video link

July 6, 2009
MORE FROM THE COVERSHOOT!
I’ve been searching for Bill pics from the shoot the whole day…some that are decent enough to share ;)
Believe it or not, I actually found some!

July 4, 2009
While I’m having breakfast you can already have a look at the first backstage pics from our covershoot. Can’t tell you too much yet ;) but we shot for 2 days till late at night and everyone had to do tons of overtime. All of this because Gustav and Georg took forever in make-up….as usual. Oh, and Georg had too many bananas and spent a lot of his time on the toilet…. Btw: The pic of me here beside the blog window is from the session.

July 4, 2009
VOILÀ!
I can’t wait to meet our new stage designer and finally develop some new LIVE ideas. That’s pretty much the most exciting part before the tour kick-off. Well, obviously aside from the challenge of having to teach Bill, Gustav and Georg all their lyrics and instruments on time :D… But until it’s show time I’ll keep on collecting some ideas. This stage for instance is just amazing!

July 3, 2009
May I introduce: The real star of my announcement video, back when he was a little baby :)

July 3, 2009
CERTAINLY NOT FOR YOUR HOME BUT SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE
I hate it when people rip animals out of their natural habitat just for their personal pleasure and for basically locking them up like a toy at home. But I NEED to show you this – whoever doesn’t go crazy must have a heart of stone. Slow Loris are the sweetest animals on earth but that’s also why they are doomed. Please also check this page and tell everyone you know about it.

July 2, 2009
NIKE is releasing a new line for their “Dunk Designs” in collaboration with NYLON Mag. In 1985, NIKE Dunks came out for the first time and back then they were only available as basketball shoes. Seriously, these shoes are classic and now NYLON is adding another model to the existing variety. It’s women only! Btw: I heard you can get them at Urban Outfitters and Nike.com.

July 1, 2009
01.07.2009
Recently at the gym…
Woho, multijobber Kanye West doesn’t sleep anymore.

08:00am: Head over to the studio to produce the latest record
12:00pm: Grab a bite to eat
12:30pm: Design sneakers for NIKE
04:00pm: Coffee break
04:30pm: Design sneakers for Louis Vuitton
09:00pm: Have dinner with Rihanna
11:00pm: Approve stage for upcoming tour
01:00am: Blog
02:00am: Shoot video for „Best I Ever Had“
07:00am: Pick up one of the extras from video shoot

Ops, it’s already 08:00am…
Well, it was worth it – see for yourself :)
Video